The Switcheroo

Giving up stuff that used to work for you. Employees, relationships, habits. Remember, those "good" habits that you have consciously employed, will eventually stop working for you. Then they will be harder to break. And keep in mind, that ALL of our "bad" habits/behaviors/choices worked for us at one point in time, which is why they are hard to let go of. Our subconscious is holding on to a tool or technique that helped us in the past. Uncovering this memory may help in the letting go. What is/has been the payoff for that habit which is no longer serving the new you? Are you still getting the same reward for implementing it? What might be the payoff for the new behavior? Is it worth the risk to your subconscious mind to switch from old to new? When are we ready for the switcheroo?

time for time

it's about time! it's about now! now is the time it's about!
we want more time here, less time there. We wait and watch while the water never boils until we look away. yet all i can think of right now is something else, somewhere else, other than this present moment. my time isn't now, it's then, or it will be soon enough, or too soon. so much time so little _________. Too little too late. On time. Now what is that exactly?

This blog is on time. yes. it's also on "time." yes. it's also making time for time.

can we put time in a bottle? can we save time? can we lose time? When i think about it, it's pretty crazy, this time thing and how we've taken the time to almost personify it, or make it a physical thing. A heavy time. A light time. A dark time. A bright time. A blue time.

About time. Timing is everything.

3 Wind haikus

1.
Which way blows the wind?
Maybe every way but up?
That's just too cliche
2.
Wind blows through my nose
Summer breeze that makes me sneeze
Quiet, let's try it
3.
Third way to see it
That which can't be seen but heard
Unless it blows dust

Memorial

Memorial. Memories. Remember that which is serving your present moment, and relieve yourself of the responsibility to keep the others alive. Remember who you really are. Remember what you are here to do. Remember to lighten up. Remember you can't get it wrong and you never get it done.

Guilty pleasures

Pleasure and pain are both motivating factors in our choices/decisions. Why is guilt lumped in with pleasure? Have we made pain the "better" motivator? So much that we have tied pleasure to pain with the ribbon of guilt? So pleasure isnt even a motivator anymore. Until we release the need to inflict pain (guilt included), we are locked into pain as the only growing tool. Growing pains. Guilty pleasures. Wow. Those phrases tell us a lot about our unconscious patterning.

Lost and found

Micro-macro. Just like when we lose something or leave something behind, it doesn't just disappear. It goes into the lost and found, or it gets repurposed by someone or something else. Thats one reason why it's pointless to try to run from ourselves. Even the stuff we "get rid of" or "lose" is always out there. The upside is, we remain whole, we are never broken or depleted or powerless or spent. We may have misplaced parts of us, but they are still out there, waiting to re-unite with our Self. The downside is, if we have lingering judgements about parts of ourselves, the very parts that make us whole, the judgements can drive us to want to separate from our Self. Can fool us into thinking there are parts of us that we need to burn out or get rid of, when actually, if we embrace all of ourselves with non-judgement, we embrace our fullness, our full power, our full potential, wisdom, and insight.

So in the song amazing grace- I once was lost and now am found, takes on a whole new meaning. The concept of having the desire to "find myself" has a different ring to it. So whether we lose our keys or part of our self, it's all there to be found. And if we can always find, we can't lose, and if we can't lose, then we can't lose!

Opposites

Blurring that fine line between up and down, left and right, in and out, good and bad. The closer we get to the center of that fine line, the closer we get to the present moment, our essential nature, our big S Self. Thank god for opposites as they are the road map that guides us to that fine line.